The new Dropbox Platform from Dropbox, officially introduced at the company's DBX developers conference, is targeted at developers who may want to quickly add Dropbox file share and sync capabilities to their applications.

Microsoft's cloud transition strategy is showing dividends, but it's up to partners to tap a rich market of cloud-ready customers worth as much as $2 trillion, the company said at its partner conference this week.

Richard Stallman, known for being a staunch advocate for personal privacy and software 'freedom,' sounds off on key issues that can lead to an Orwellian world dominated by 'Big Brother.' The eventual outcome, he says, depends on the degree to which society will resist.

Independent software vendor SkyKick struck a deal with Synnex, opening up distribution of SkyKick's point-and-click migration system that makes it easier for SMBs to get in the cloud through Microsoft's Office 365.

They're starting to make a name for themselves by offering new ways of managing cloud storage or providing disaster recovery services. Here are 10 cloud storage startups that have racked up investments -- or been acquired -- in the past six months.